Bilingualism imposes costs to language processing but benefits to word learning. We test a
new hypothesis that relates costs in language processing at study to benefits in learning at …

A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of
bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the …

Learning a new language involves substantial vocabulary acquisition. Learners can
accelerate this process by relying on words with native‐language overlap, such as …

Learning conventional verb-noun combinations in a second language is known to be highly
problematic when word choices differ from those in the native language. Grounded on …

Previous studies have demonstrated that bilingualism can facilitate novel-word learning.
However, the mechanisms behind this bilingual advantage remain unknown. Here, we …

Recent years have seen increasing interest in research on bilingualism and second
language learning. These studies of bilinguals have revealed aspects of the human mind …

The debate concerning a potential bilingual cognitive advantage is ongoing but has turned
to focus on understanding factors modulating the appearance of bilingual effects. The …

Whereas the cognitive advantages brought about by bilingualism have recently been called
into question, the so-called 'lexical deficit'in bilinguals is still largely taken for granted. Here …

Previous work on bilingual language processing indicates that native-language skills can
influence second-language acquisition. The goal of the present work was to examine the …

Bilingual first language learners face unique challenges that may influence the rate and
order of early word learning relative to monolinguals. A comparison of the productive …